Wittgenstein, Richard

"What is the relation between a name and the thing named?"

"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."

"Wittgenstein's Ladder: Whereof one cannot speak, one must climb up it and then throw it away."

"The elementary propositions of logic show the logical scaffolding of the world."

"A simile that has been absorbed into the forms of our language produces a picture that holds us captive."

"Thought itself contains the answer to the question of its own truth."

"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, the subject is a limit of the world."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."

"The facts in logical space are the world."

"Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same."

"Whereof one cannot speak, one should not speak."

"The totality of existing states of affairs is the world."

"For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which we employ the word 'meaning,' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."

"Objects form the substance of the world."

"It is clear that not everything that can be thought of can be said."

"The purpose of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"A name means an object. The object is its meaning."

"Facts and their negations are either true or false."

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."

"What we call finding is often just the realization that we already knew it."

"One cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connection with other things."

"The world divides into facts."

"Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, of houses with walls of varying thickness."

"God does not reveal himself in the world."

"The limits which make sense can be drawn only in language."

"We can imagine a man who was brought up and spent his life on a desert island and just spoke in monologue: all his pronouncements would be shaped on the model of giving himself information."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof silence must be."

"Mathematics is a kind of game played according to simple, mechanical rules."

"A question has meaning only in so far as an answer to it is possible."